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    Ruminations, a Collection of Poems
    Ruminations, a Collection of Poems
    Ruminations, a Collection of Poems
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    Ruminations, a Collection of Poems

    By Helen Estes Seltzer

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    A collection of 29 poems and one short story. Many deal with the author's home city of Philadelphia, PA. A mother, a school teacher, and entrepreneur, she lived 1920-2010 in Rockville MD, Plymouth, NH, and Bristol, Feasterville, Huntingdon Valley, Columbia, and Philadelphia, PA, moving frequenly as her husband advanced through a series of jobs from teacher to school superintendent. She was the mother of two - Richard and Raven (Sallie).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateSep 13, 2018
    ISBN9781455448111
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      Ruminations, a Collection of Poems - Helen Estes Seltzer

      Helen Estes Seltzer, oil painting by her husband, Richard Seltzer, Sr.

      Ruminations, a collection of poems by Helen Estes Seltzer

      Published by Seltzer Books. seltzerbooks.com

      established in 1974, as B&R Samizdat Express

      offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: [email protected]

      Part One - Humor

      Clashing Mirror of Ceiling and Mind

      A Forest Tree and Me

      A DNA Nightmare

      Exposing and Deposing Leo

      Those Bachelor Girl Blues

      I Need a Valet

      Never Had a Debut

      Part Two - In Memoriam

      Goliath and David

      Jinney the Gipper

      Part Three - Odes

      A Valentine Ode to Bob

      Ode to Ginger

      Hong Kong Song

      Ode to Hong Kong and Tai Chi

      An Ode to Keats' Grecian Urn

      Ode to Penny

      Ode to Sallie

      Ode to John Templeton

      The Union League of Philadelphia

      Part Four - Philosophy

      The Eyes Have It

      The Grey Years

      Homeostasis

      Lustrous Revelations

      Part Five - Philadelphia

      Philadelphia: City of Love and Liberty

      Philadelphia: The Sapphire City

      My Bench in the Park

      Snow Ghost

      In Old East Falls

      Part Six - Women's World

      An Anatomy of the Lives of Women in Ages Past

      Conundrum

      Part Seven - One Short Story

      Jimmy Fortune's Way

      PART ONE - HUMOR

      CLASHING MIRRORS OF CEILING AND MIND

      There I was living in a dream world --

      in my own outer space.

      Had kept myself looking younger

      with pale blonde frosting to erase

      some dowdy dark brown.

      I seemed like a queen with a golden crown.

      Then I had to suffer through a virtual hell

      in a lovely but terrible, fateful hotel --

      where there came over me an age-shaking fear,

      in England's Lake Country Windemere.

      The setting: the bathroom;

      the culprit: a mirror in the ceiling

      which evoked in me this strange new feeling.

      It sent me crashing down to earth,    

      and to stark reality gave birth.

      The jig was up -- My natural wig was up --

      and the villain was a spotlight-fixture

        starring in that fateful picture.

      'Cause, there before me, finally exposed,

      never by me ever even supposed,

      was my own true salt and pepper thatch.

      And it sent my well-ensconced happy

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